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Born and raised on the mean streets of New York City’s Upper West Side, Katie Halper is a comic, writer, blogger, satirist and filmmaker based in New York. Katie graduated from The Dalton School (where she teaches history) and Wesleyan University (where she learned that labels are for jars.) A director of Living Liberally and co-founder/performer in Laughing Liberally, Katie has performed at Town Hall, Symphony Space, The Culture Project, D.C. Comedy Festival, all five Netroots Nations, and The Nation Magazine Cruise, where she made Howard Dean laugh! and has appeared with Lizz Winstead, Markos Moulitsas, The Yes Men, Cynthia Nixon and Jim Hightower. Her writing and videos have appeared in The New York Times, Comedy Central, The Nation Magazine, Gawker, Nerve, Jezebel, the Huffington Post, Alternet and Katie has been featured in/on NY Magazine, LA Times, In These Times, Gawker,Jezebel, MSNBC, Air America, GritTV, the Alan Colmes Show, Sirius radio (which hung up on her once) and the National Review, which called Katie “cute and some what brainy.”
Katie co-produced Tim Robbins’s film Embedded, (Venice Film Festival, Sundance Channel); Estela Bravo’s Free to Fly (Havana Film Festival, LA Latino Film Festival); was outreach director for The Take, Naomi Klein/Avi Lewis documentary about Argentine workers (Toronto & Venice Film Festivals, Film Forum); co-directed New Yorkers Remember the Spanish Civil War, a video for Museum of the City of NY exhibit, and wrote/directed viral satiric videos including Jews/ Women/ Gays for McCain.

The ‘‘Protecting Our Communities from Gang Violence Act of 2018’’ Act, introduced in the House of Representatives last month by Republican Lee Zeldin of New York, would allow the U.S. government to revoke the citizenship status of naturalized immigrants who have been or are affiliated or associated with a criminal gang.

The bill stipulates that an immigrant’s citizenship status can be called into question by a determination “that an alien does not exhibit good moral character based on gang membership, association, affiliation, or provision of material support” within ten years of becoming naturalized. In a press release, Zeddin cited the “the rise of MS-13 and other gangs” as the impetus for proposing the bill and also stressed the need to “crack down on . ...

The Oscars are coming up this Sunday and if there’s one movie I’m rooting for, it’s the contender for best animated feature film, Coco.

This film is important for so many reasons; for many Latinx youth, it’s the first time we’re seeing our stories and heritageaccurately reflected on the silver screen. And on top of celebrating and honoring Mexican culture and traditions, Coco is a movie made for Latinx children and their families during the Trump era. Released a few months after Trump rescinded Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) and during a time when we feel underappreciated and under attack, Coco is a love letter to immigrants.

The film tells the story of Miguel Rivera, a young ...

The Oscars are coming up this Sunday and if there’s one movie I’m rooting for, it’s the contender for best animated feature film, Coco.

Lorde is the majestic teacher I never had in real life but who is still the source of much of my own personal and political growth — and who somehow speaks to me during my highs and lows week after week. Here are a few of her essays available online. Enjoy your Sunday with them.

In other things good for the soul, “Black Panther,” Marvel’s first film directed by a black American, came out on Friday crushing box office records. I won’t see it until tonight (and feel like a total fraud for waiting a whole two days) but I am living for the joyous videos coming out of excited audiences across ...

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